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 His supporters are caught up in the headlines of having support from RFK Jr, Tulsi, Muskrat, Thiel etc.

It’s one thing for Elon to fire 5,000 Xitter employees - firing 500,000 public servants is a very different story.

It doesn’t matter what they do, how effectively, nor how ineffectively.

The market can’t absorb 500,000 bureaucrats let alone 2,000,000 as it would probably need to.

So if you can’t occupy those who you’re going to displace you’d better have a plan to get them out of your country and Trump simply doesn’t. Without a plan they’re going to undermine your every move which is an impossible counterforce to deal with for what he wants to achieve.

Unless the firings come with a one-way ticket to Aus/Antarctica/Tasmania then you’re just inviting the same people back into the system.

He doesn’t have the guts to do what is needed. Trump will be at best, a false dawn. 
 Respectfully I can tell you’ve never talked to a US gov employee. Aside from the people in the deep state theyre mostly veal. If the 
 If they were effective they wouldn’t be in the federal 
 Why would a random Aussie have cause to talk to the US deep state?

I don’t. They can all fucking burn for all I care. 
 The point is that you don’t understand the psychology. Outside military and Intel types they’re docile pencil pushers. They’ll grumble and take their 40% hair cut that they deserve.